On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Greg Chicares<address@hidden> wrote:
On 2011-08-08 10:51Z, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
I would like to invoke make with a debug or release configuration, but
without a rule:
`make debug` or `make release`
Later:
ifeq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),debug)
CXXFLAGS += -DDEBUG=1 -g3 -ggdb -O0
endif
Because I don't have a rule, I'm getting a make error:
make: *** No rule to make target `debug'. Stop.
So I think I've figured out how *not* to do it.
I need to pick up debug or release, then invoke the `all` rule. Can
anyone suggest a way that works?
Untested:
`make build_type=debug all` or `make build_type=release all`
ifeq (debug,$(findstring debug,$(build_type)))
CXXFLAGS += -DDEBUG=1 -g3 -ggdb -O0
endif
Thanks Greg. I was trying to stay away from the flags style since its
less intuitive (we're targeting folks whose primary language might not
be C/C++).
`make debug` => easy, no user questions
`make build_type=debug all` => what was that flag again?